Achieving Business Agility: Strategies for Becoming Pivot Ready in a Digital World

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J. OrvosAchieving Business Agilityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3855-4_6

6. Sounding the Alarm at Solar Corona

John Orvos¹  

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Belle Mead, New Jersey, USA

 

Keywords

Solar CoronaBudget MeetingsFayette CountyOutdated SystemOrganic Food Retailers

Yearly Budget Meeting: Finance Wants to Cut the Spend

It’s 10:00 AM Monday morning as the managers shuffle in to the conference room for the yearly budget review meeting. Oscar Dayton, CFO, is nervously pacing at the back of the room. Oscar had arrived earlier than the rest of the executives, trying to give himself just a few more minutes to prepare for what he knew would be a contentious meeting.

Oscar was a tall, thin man in his mid-40s and a staunchly loyal executive that had been at Solar Corona ...